Academic Administrative Experience

Vice President for Strategic Planning and Public Affairs
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia

Selected accomplishments:
Developed a comprehensive strategic planning program for the University of Georgia, in concert with University System of Georgia Board of Regents, and in support of a $500M university-wide capital campaign, and led development of a new campus (now Gwinnett State University).

1991 - 1998:

Vice President for Development and University Relations
University of Georgia

Selected accomplishments:
Created a professional development and fundraising organization; hired thirty-five staff to manage corporate, foundation, planned, major, and constituent-based giving; developed comprehensive computer-based information management system to support development and alumni programs; doubled number of annual donors; successfully completed the $150 million campus-wide capital campaign in 1993; doubled level of private giving to institution over six years; reorganized UGA Foundation Board and committee structure; reorganized alumni relations function, doubling staff and programs; launched Georgia's first dues-based national alumni association; developed a public affairs office focused on national news; revamped internal faculty/staff newspaper and alumni magazine; developed advisory board for alumni communications; and created Visitor and Information Center and community relations function.

1990 - 1991:

Vice President for University Relations (Acting)
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York

Primary responsibilities:
Chief public affairs and government relations officer; principal administrative liaison for international program.

Selected accomplishments:
Developed marketing strategies for College of Human Ecology and Cornell Hotel School; developed communication materials for $1.5 billion capital campaign; developed unified marketing and communications program for Cornell Computing and Information Management Systems; developed community relations agreement with local government; created unified athletics image and marketing program; and negotiated television contract for coverage of all football games.

1989 - 1990:

Executive Director of University Communications
Cornell University

Primary responsibilities:
Principal deputy to the Vice President for University Relations; member of Cornell's Executive Staff; line responsibility for institutional internal and external communications offices and programs; member of the Council for International Education; communications and media oversight for Cornell Athletics; capital campaign communications.

1979 - 1989:

Executive Assistant to the Chancellor and Executive Director of University Communications
The University of Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee

Primary responsibilities:
Serve as chief of staff for university central administration; represent the Chancellor and the central administration with internal and external constituencies, including the Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate, the UTK Council of Academic Deans, the UT system-wide administration, the press and various public groups as necessary; coordinate the work of the Vice Chancellors and Provost of UTK; serve as a member of the central budget and planning group; review all proposals for new academic programs and degrees; participate in long-range planning efforts; provide special reports on problem areas; review state and federal legislation and help determine consequences for campus policy and practice; coordinate and develop University public relations, marketing, publications and video projects; line responsibility for the Office of University Communications; liaison between campus and UT intercollegiate athletics program; development and coordination of faculty development programs; chair of University Council on International Education; serve as member of the Title XII Board of Directors of the UT Institute of Agriculture; member of Board of Directors of the Stokely Institute for Appalachian Studies; appoint and coordinate administrative committees of the University; University Liaison with the Oak Ridge Operations Office of the Department of Energy; represent the University in Consortium of Research Institutions (comprising UTK, TVA, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Oak Ridge Operations Office of the Department of Energy); and Coordinator of the UT-Oak Ridge National Laboratory-TVA Consortium.

1975 - 1979:

Assistant to the Chancellor
The University of Tennessee

Special Projects included:
Revision of University Personnel Policies and Procedures; revision of University Appeal Procedures; development of Pre-Medical Enrichment Institute for Disadvantaged Students; development of College of Law Admission by Performance Institute for Disadvantaged Students; coordination of Faculty Handbook revisions; Chair of the Search Committee for the Vice Chancellor for Business and Finance; Vice-chair of the Search Committee for Provost; development of organizational and financial plan to comply with Title IX (women's athletics); and analysis of institutional investment ethics, with particular reference to investment in South Africa, and draft of statement of principles for institutional investments.

1972 - 1975:

Executive Director, Florida Endowment for the Humanities,
The Florida Division of the National Endowment for the Humanities' State Program

Primary responsibilities:
Administration of federal, state and private grant funds for public programs in humanities; administration of grants to 57 institutions of higher education and public organizations; and representation of the Board of the Florida Endowment to the public and the higher education community of Florida.

Current Community Service

Recent Community Service

Appointed to the Educational Facilities Authority by the Pinellas County Board of County Commissioners, January 2007-October 2009
Member, Florida Orchestra Board of Advisors
Member (now Director Emeritus), Board of Directors, Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida
Member, Board of Directors, St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce

Member, Board of Trustees, CASE (Council for the Advancement and Support of Education)

1999-2002:

Chair, Advisory Board for CASE Currents (Professional magazine for advancement profession)
Member, Advisory Board for CASE International Journal of Educational Advancement
Member, Society for College and University Planning

2000:

Panelist, AIR/CASE (Association for Institutional Research and Council for Advancement and Support of Education) Research Colloquium, "The New Demographics of Philanthropy" (St. Louis, MO)

Member, Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Commission on Communications

1996:

Moderator and panelist, CASE District III Annual meeting, "The Relationship Between Development and Public Relations in Higher Education"

1995:

Panelist, AAU (Association of American Universities) Public Affairs Annual Meeting, "Race and Racial Issues in the Research University"

1989 - 1992:

Member, AAU Council on Public Affairs (representing Cornell University)

1986 - 1998:

Institutional Representative, National Association of State Colleges and Land-Grant Universities (NASULGC) International Division (representing the University of Tennessee, Cornell University and the University or Georgia)

Education

1988:

Harvard University
Management Development Program

1968 - 1971:

University of Florida
Ph.D. in English, 1971. Concentration in Modern and Nineteenth-Century British and Irish Literature